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Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Welcome to Growing With Proficiency: The Podcast! Are you a World Language teacher who is looking for ideas, strategies, activities, and inspiration to create a World Language class where you and your students enjoy using the language to learn about the world and each other? Do you want to transform your class into an acquisition-driven instruction space where you intentionally provide a ton of comprehensible input?
If you are, you're in the right place.
Let's start this journey together. Head over to IG, and send me a DM @claudiamelliott to let me know what topics you would like me to cover in an upcoming episode.Join my free Facebook community, Growing With C. Also, check out my blog to start discovering some of these ideas and strategies at growingwithproficiency.com
Growing With Proficiency The Podcast
Re-Release Episode 14: 3 Strategies to Reclaim Your Time in the New Year From Lesson Planning to Taking Control of Your Inbox With Lisa Mchargue
Do you spend too much time lesson planning, searching for files, or managing your inbox—and still feel like you’re always behind?
In this re-released episode of Growing With Proficiency, I’m joined by Lisa McCart to talk about how systems and organization can help teachers reclaim their time without adding more stress.
Teachers spend hours every week redoing lessons, digging through Google Drive (or its equivalent), and trying to stay on top of email. Yet when we hear phrases like organize your drive or clean your inbox, it often feels overwhelming and unrealistic. In this episode, we break down simple, practical systems for teachers that make lesson planning more efficient and help reduce burnout.
Lisa shares actionable strategies for organizing digital files, creating sustainable routines, and managing your inbox so you can focus on what matters most—your students and your well-being.
This episode is especially helpful if you’re looking for:
✅ Teacher organization tips
✅ Lesson planning systems for teachers
✅ Google Drive organization for educators
✅ Time management strategies for teachers
✅ Ways to reduce teacher stress and burnout
If you want to start the year with clearer systems, less overwhelm, and more confidence in your planning, this episode is for you.
Hit play and learn how to reclaim your time—inside and outside the classroom.
In this episode, we discuss:
✨ Why teachers spend so much time searching for files and recreating lessons
✨ How simple organization systems save time instead of adding more work
✨ Practical ways to organize Google Drive for lesson planning
✨ Inbox management strategies that actually work for teachers
✨ How routines and systems create clarity, not rigidity
✨Why small, consistent systems lead to long-term time savings
Whether you’re a new teacher or a veteran educator, these strategies will help you feel more in control of your time and energy.
Resources Mentioned
- Lisa McHargue
- Join the waitlist for Growing With Proficiency: The Spanish Teacher Academy → growingwithproficiency.com/academy
- Follow me on Instagram @claudiamelliott
- 📑 Discover culturally rich, month-specific resources for Spanish classes in my TPT Store: Growing With Proficiency.
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